LabVIEW
How to start an animation in an ActiveX Container?
Hey chip007,
I was looking at one of your other posts and I get the impression that you are more comfortable in flash than you are with Labview. I pulled out the data aquisition portion of your program and simplified it a little bit. Then I use ActiveX to call the flash animation. I don't know much about how flash likes to be treated. But there are a whole bunch of different methods that can be called. Hopefully you have some good documentation on what exactly each method does.
After I placed the ActiveX container, I left clicked on it and selected "Insert ActiveX Component". On my machine it gives me a huge list, but Shockwave was in there. Then you just wire the reference on the block diagram to However many Invoke nodes as I needed. You can select the specific method by left clicking on "Method". If you want to see the properties, do the same thing with a property node. Do not forget to close the reference or you will have a memory hole the size of a Buick.
I don't think you need the stacked sequence. Labview's dataflow paradigm keeps everything happening in the correct order. The first Invoke node will not start until all of its input wires are populated and the "error in" will not populate until the DAQmx Clear Task is finished. DAQmx Clear Task will not start until the loop is finished, etc.
I was looking at one of your other posts and I get the impression that you are more comfortable in flash than you are with Labview. I pulled out the data aquisition portion of your program and simplified it a little bit. Then I use ActiveX to call the flash animation. I don't know much about how flash likes to be treated. But there are a whole bunch of different methods that can be called. Hopefully you have some good documentation on what exactly each method does.
After I placed the ActiveX container, I left clicked on it and selected "Insert ActiveX Component". On my machine it gives me a huge list, but Shockwave was in there. Then you just wire the reference on the block diagram to However many Invoke nodes as I needed. You can select the specific method by left clicking on "Method". If you want to see the properties, do the same thing with a property node. Do not forget to close the reference or you will have a memory hole the size of a Buick.
I don't think you need the stacked sequence. Labview's dataflow paradigm keeps everything happening in the correct order. The first Invoke node will not start until all of its input wires are populated and the "error in" will not populate until the DAQmx Clear Task is finished. DAQmx Clear Task will not start until the loop is finished, etc.
Message Edited by jasonhill on 06-28-2006 12:18 PM
